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I have the new Diesel Depot file, but I don't know if I can find any time to build it. Looks like a great building to make. If there are any veteran builders out there then let me know if you can build it and how much you'd charge.

I always add a floor and often a ceiling of much thicker card. An alternative tip is to stick some plastruct angle in the corners - as long as it doesn't obscure part of a window. On longe structures like a terrace of houses I also add a wall between the individual houses, that also helps support the roof, if you have a good floor and ceiling a vertical piece of card along the centre makes a good roof support. A further advantage of an internal vertical wall is that it prevents being able to see through the windows from front to back.

That sounds like a very good idea. I've also been thinking (dangerous). I used to model in OO gauge where they recommend thick card at 2mm and medium card at 1mm ie medium is 50% of thick. Now, for N gauge it is suggested 1mm for thick and 200gsm (0.2mm) for medium ie 20%. So, I wondered about trying some medium card at 0.5mm. Which just happens to be the thickness of a Cornflakes packet! Actually a 500g packet is 0.5mm and a 750g packet is 0.6 .........mmm

Does anyone have any skills at putting together scalescene models? ive got a few but i can never get them right, they always look like they were put together in a nursery class,

Id be happy to pay someone to help me out?

(not sure if this is against forum rules? apologies if it is)

I am in the same boat. I have no problem at all with the Metcalfe kits. They are nicely made and have creases already put in for the folds etc which makes them easier to assemble. But I find the Scalescenes kits a challenge. There are a few Scalescenes kits which I have my eye one, such as the diesel depot. Also the large station station with canopy is a pretty impressive structure.

It would be nice if you could pay a little more and buy them assembled so that they look like the pictures on the website. It would be a good little side-line business for someone who has mastered them.

It would be nice if you could pay a little more and buy them assembled so that they look like the pictures on the website.

The trouble with selling these kits ready built is that even at the minimum wage rate, the cost would be astronomical.

All I can suggest is to persevere, and learn from your mistakes. I can assure you that the more you do the better they get. It is really useful to be able to throw a part away when you make a mistake and start again.

My most recent discovery is to use Brassmasters etched windows. It makes all the difference when you can paint them any colour you want.

And there are quite a few useful tips in this thread. Let's hope they keep on coming.

I have the terraced houses. Started by printing on paper and glueing that to card - didn't work at all as an approach. The only way is printing direct to card and maybe laminating from there. I didn't try it yet as I realised I only needed two and there were other buildings more important..

I have of late been trying to build some housing from scratch to match those behind the station at Northfleet (see link below page 5).

Claude Dreyfus (of this parish) suggested a foam board core to make the structure more rigid. Cut out large appetites in the core for the windows and adjust the size of the core to allow for its thickness. Then use the Scalescenes prints as the outer faces..

I am ging to try this for my scratch built buildings - I'll let you know how I get on...

I use Peedie Models etched windows where possible, - cheaper. Alternatively I use clear acetate and draw the frames on it with fine line paint markers, use a plain card side before sticking the brick paper on with window spaces cut out as a template, cut the acetate to the same shape and clip it firmly to the template with paper clips or small clamps; draw the frames with a ruler and the edges by drawing round the template openings

I'm a big fan of Scalescenes and have built many kits, definitely agree with Bob Wild. You get better the more you build. I scratch build more now using elements of kits and other Texture sheets, my current scratchbuild project is Reddish Depot to scale, just need somewhere to put it!!! ..........oh, and some 76's, thinking of building my Masterclass kit, and then creating a moulding to recreate in resin. I need some confidence for that though first!

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I like to start each day the same, sit up and take a deep breath!First objective for the day achieved, woohoo!!!

I love Scalescenes kits! The only gripe is that they take so long to build! The end result is totally worth the time spent though. My last Scalescenes building was the Northlight engine shed, which I altered from the Scalescenes design to represent a GCR loco shed. Thos of you who have seen my YouTube channel will have seen it. The basic kit is a 2 road shed long enough for one loco on each road, I've expanded mine to a 4 road shed accommodating 2 locos on each, with workshops/offices on the side with a door and bay window on the front in an Annesley/Leicester style.It's not quite finished, I tried being a smarty pants by using the clear plastic from the front of Metcalfe packaging for my windows then drawing the frames on, which failed, then discovering I could print the windows on acetate!

I love Scalescenes kits! The only gripe is that they take so long to build! The end result is totally worth the time spent though. My last Scalescenes building was the Northlight engine shed, which I altered from the Scalescenes design to represent a GCR loco shed. Thos of you who have seen my YouTube channel will have seen it. The basic kit is a 2 road shed long enough for one loco on each road, I've expanded mine to a 4 road shed accommodating 2 locos on each, with workshops/offices on the side with a door and bay window on the front in an Annesley/Leicester style.It's not quite finished, I tried being a smarty pants by using the clear plastic from the front of Metcalfe packaging for my windows then drawing the frames on, which failed, then discovering I could print the windows on acetate!